The table listed here is a complete list of the settings you can edit using site-wide defaults files (Defaults.plist) or the defaults command-line utility, and their original values. The comments in the green sections describe the setting that's above.
Color settings are expressed as a string containing three decimal numbers between 0 and 1 separated by spaces; these are Red, Green and Blue values. ("0 0 0" is black, "1 1 1" is white, "0.5 0.5 1.0" is a lavender-blue color, et cetera.) "Boolean" settings, or true/false switch values, are expressed as 1 or YES for true, and 0 or NO for false.
See the manual pages for the defaults utility for more information on how to use it to configure these settings. You can read the manual pages by typing 'man defaults' into a Terminal window.
This listing also serves as a reference for creating a Defaults.plist file. If you have the PropertyListEditor installed (it comes as part of the Developer Tools package available from Apple) you can use it to create and edit one of these files. Further information on site-wide defaults files can be found in "Setting up Site-wide Preferences" in the Advanced Topics section of OmniWeb Help.
| Default | Format | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| AutoFill | ||
| OWFormAutoFillSets | Dictionary | |
| name of autofill set | Dictionary | |
| form field 1 | String | autofill text for field 1 |
| form field 2 | String | autofill text for field 2 |
| Contains the AutoFill sets defined by the user. Initially empty. | ||
| OWFormAutoFillCurrentSet | String | __OWShared__ |
| Stores the name of the currently active autofill set as selected by the "View/AutoFill Set" submenu. The special value __OWShared__ corresponds to the shared autofill set, regardless of its name in the user's language. | ||
| OWAutoFillSynonyms | Dictionary | |
| address1 | String | street |
| born | String | birthday |
| company | String | organization |
| dateofbirth | String | birthday |
| dayphone | String | workphone |
| daytimephone | String | workphone |
| eveningphone | String | homephone |
| firstname | String | first |
| givenname | String | first |
| lastname | String | last |
| middle | String | middleinitial |
| middlename | String | middleinitial |
| postalcode | String | zip |
| streetaddress | String | street |
| surname | String | last |
| zipcode | String | zip |
| Synonyms for form autofill keys. Corresponds to the list that is modified by the "Synonyms..." button in the AutoFill preferences. | ||
| OWAutomaticallySaveFormValues | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Automatically save values from submitted forms" | ||
| OWAutoFillLoginAndPasswordForms | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether OmniWeb should consider saving the field values of forms which look like username/password forms. Corresponds to the "Prompt to save usernames and passwords" checkbox in the AutoFill preferences pane. If false, OmniWeb will not save username/password form fields for later use. | ||
| Bookmarks | ||
| BookmarkPage | String | file:///~/Library/Application%20Support/OmniWeb/Bookmarks.html |
| Corresponds to "Peronal Bookmarks page"; URL for personal bookmarks file | ||
| BookmarksDefaultCheckFrequency | String | 0 |
| Corresponds to "By default, check bookmarks every [number] [period]". Consists of an optional number followed by a unit. Units are "min" (for minutes), "hourly" (or "h"), "daily" (or "d"), "weekly", "monthly" (or "mo"), and "never". If the number is omitted it is interpreted as 1. For example, "5 hourly" indicates a check every five hours (not five times per hour). As a special case, 0 is interpreted as never, and other unadorned numbers are interpreted as intervals of minutes. | ||
| OpenBookmarksInFrontWindow | Boolean | Yes |
| If set to a true value, causes bookmars, history selections, etc., to be opened in the frontmost browser window. | ||
| OpenBookmarksAtStartup | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Open personal bookmarks when OmniWeb starts up" | ||
| ShowUpdatedBookmarksInDockIcon | Boolean | Yes |
| Enables the display of the number of unviewed bookmarks as a badge on the application's dock icon, and the corresponding popup menu of unviewed bookmarks. | ||
| MaxBookmarksInDockMenu | Number (integer) | 20 |
| Controls how many bookmarks we show when listing updated bookmarks in the Dock menu. If you have more than that, the "N updated bookmarks" header turns into an item which will open your bookmarks page. | ||
| MaxMostVisitedBookmarks | Number (integer) | 12 |
| The number of bookmarks to display in the "Most Visited" bookmarks group. | ||
| OpenZapsOnSingleClick | Boolean | No |
| Allows a single-click on zap icons in the bookmarks window or address well to open the URL. | ||
| SampleBookmarksPage | String | SampleBookmarks.html |
| What to use as a sample set of bookmarks if the user doesn't have a personal bookmarks file. This is the name of a resource in OmniWeb's application bundle. | ||
| ArchiveFormValues | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether or not OmniWeb archives form values when you create a bookmark on a page with form elements. Archived form values are stored along with the bookmark and are restored when the page is loaded from the bookmark. | ||
| BookmarkEditorVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the bookmark page's editor pane is displayed. | ||
| StandaloneBookmarkEditorVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the standalone bookmark window's editor pane is displayed. | ||
| DefaultAddBookmarkFolderID | Dictionary | |
| Contains the information used to locate the bookmark folder in which to file newly added bookmarks. | ||
| OWBookmarkRelocations | Dictionary | |
| Stores information on cached copies of bookmarks files, used for bookmark synchronization. It is probably unwise to set this default by hand. | ||
| DoBookmarkServerSync | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Synchronize bookmarks with other Macs". | ||
| BookmarkServerSyncToIDisk | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Synchronize bookmarks with other Macs". This default is only read if "DoBookmarkServerSync" is true. It overrides the value of "BookmarkServerSyncLocation". | ||
| BookmarkServerSyncLocation | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to the textfield below "Synchronize bookmarks with other Macs". This default is only read if "DoBookmarkServerSync" is true. | ||
| Bookmark Groups | ||
| OWAddressBookBookmarksGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Address Book group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWFavoritesGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Favorites group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWHistoryGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the History group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWMostVisitedBookmarksGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Most Visited group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWPublishedBookmarksGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the My Shared Bookmarks group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWRendezvousBookmarksGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Local Web Servers group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWSharedBookmarksGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Shared Bookmarks group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| OWSitePreferencesGroupEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether the Site Preferences group is displayed in the Collections list of the bookmarks page. | ||
| Display and Appearance | ||
| OHIncrementalDisplay | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Start drawing pages before they are entirely loaded" | ||
| OHUsePageIcons | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Show page icons offered by websites". If this is set to a true value, OmniWeb will display icons (images specified in <LINK> tags or named "favicon.ico") next to URLs, bookmarks, history entries, etc. | ||
| OWStyleSheetPreset | String | Default |
| If set, this overrides most other style sheet preferences. Valid values and their meanings are stored in the ColorSets.plist resource. Corresponds to the "Page colors:" popup. | ||
| OHUnderlineAnchors | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Underline links on web pages". This controls the text-decoration property of the default (OmniWeb) stylesheet. | ||
| OWUserStyleSheetLocation | String | |
| A URL specifying a CSS style sheet. If set to a non-empty value, this will cause an @import directive to be included in the default stylesheet. Note, this also requires that the path to the user-defined style sheet be present in the Ad Blocking preferences under the "Edit Blocked URLs List: Load anything from sites matching these expressions..." section. Note that the URL blocking functionality does not need to be enabled in order for the custom stylsheet to be used. | ||
| OWTextSizeMultiplier | Number (real) | 1 |
| OmniWeb multiplies the font size of displayed text by this factor. Corresponds to the "Text zoom:" field and the "Smaller Text"/"Bigger Text" toolbar items. | ||
| UseSubpixelPositioning | Boolean | No |
| Enables sub-pixel positioning when drawing text. | ||
| UseCGTextRenderer | Boolean | Yes |
| Enables the use of the CoreGraphics-based text renderer instead of the ATSUI-based text renderer. | ||
| FlushStyleAfterEachDraw | Boolean | No |
| If the ATSUI text renderer is used, this enables a workaround for a bug in ATSUI's style cache. | ||
| HighlightClickedLinks | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Highlight links when clicked". Controls whether or not links are selected/focused on when they are clicked. | ||
| HideAdBlockMouseover | Boolean | No |
| Disables the information display which pops up when a blocked ad is moused-over. | ||
| Downloads | ||
| OWPersistentDownloadsTimeout | Number (real) | 604800 |
| Corresponds to the "Remember Downloads for:" popup; value is stored in seconds | ||
| OWRaisePanelOnDownload | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Bring the panel forward if it isn't frontmost" | ||
| OWShowPanelForDownloads | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Downloads window: Shows when new download starts" | ||
| OHDownloadFolder | String | ~/Desktop |
| Corresponds to the "Download files to:" popup | ||
| OHDownloaderLaunchFiles | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "When downloads finish: Open files in "safe" applications" | ||
| OWClosePanelOnCompleteDownload | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Downloads window: Hides when no downloads are active" | ||
| OHDownloaderLaunchableApplications | Array | |
| String | com.adobe.acrobat.reader | |
| String | com.adobe.Reader | |
| String | com.apple.AddressBook | |
| String | com.apple.bomarchivehelper | |
| String | com.apple.DiskCopy | |
| String | com.apple.DiskImageMounter | |
| String | com.apple.iCal | |
| String | com.apple.installer | |
| String | com.apple.iTunes | |
| String | com.apple.Preview | |
| String | com.apple.QuickTime Player | |
| String | com.apple.Sherlock | |
| String | com.apple.TextEdit | |
| String | com.apple.WebStart | |
| String | com.microsoft.mediaplayer | |
| String | com.omnigroup.OmniGraffle | |
| String | com.omnigroup.OmniOutliner | |
| String | com.RealNetworks.RealOne Player | |
| String | com.stepwise.OpenUp | |
| String | com.stuffit.Expander | |
| Corresponds to the list of applications in the "Safe Applications List". Each entry is an application's bundle identifier. These applications are those OmniWeb is willing to launch to handle a completed download. | ||
| Font and Color | ||
| OWFontStylePreset | String | Default |
| If set, this overrides the values of the font family and font size preferences. Valid values and their meanings are stored in the FontStyles.plist resource. Corresponds to the "Font style:" popup. | ||
| OHBackgroundColor | String | 1 1 1 |
| Corresponds to "Web page background color"; controls the background-color property of the default style sheet. | ||
| OHTextColor | String | 0 0 0 |
| Corresponds to "Web page text color"; controls the color property of the default style sheet. | ||
| OHLinkColor | String | 0 0.25 0.602 |
| Corresponds to "Link color"; controls the color property of anchors in the default style sheet. | ||
| OHCachedLinkColor | String | 0.172 0.5 0.445 |
| Corresponds to "visited link color"; controls the color property of visited links in the default style sheet. | ||
| OHHighlightedAnchorColor | String | 0 0.207 0.5 |
| Corresponds to "active link color"; controls the color property of active links in the default style sheet. | ||
| OHNormalFontFamily | String | Lucida Grande |
| Corresponds to Proportional (base) font | ||
| OHNormalFontSize | Number (real) | 14 |
| Corresponds to Proportional (base) font size | ||
| OHFixedPitchFontFamily | String | Courier |
| Corresponds to Fixed-width (plain or preformatted text) font | ||
| OHFixedPitchFontSize | Number (real) | 14 |
| Corresponds to Fixed-width (plain or preformatted text) font size | ||
| OHHasMinimumFontSize | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether the OHMinimumFontSize default is used. | ||
| OHMinimumFontSize | Number (real) | 9 |
| Corresponds to the "minimum size" field under "Font Style". | ||
| OHHasMaximumFontSize | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether the OHMaximumFontSize default is used. | ||
| OHMaximumFontSize | Number (real) | 72 |
| Corresponds to the "maximum size" field under "Font Style". | ||
| OAFontFamilySubstitutions | Dictionary | |
| A dictionary of key/value pairs with the key being the name of the font to substitute and the value being the font to use for substitution (was OHFontFamilySubstitutions until OmniWeb 4.5). | ||
| OHAlwaysUsePreferenceColors | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Page colors: Override page styles". Causes the default stylesheet to use the !important flag. | ||
| ManufacturedFontsPreferred | Boolean | Yes |
| If manufactured fonts are preferred (Yes) we will create bold or italic versions of fonts without those variants without trying to find a fallback font family that supports the required attributes. This is dependant on the individual default settings ManufactureBoldFonts and ManufactureItalicFonts below. If manufactured fonts are not preferred we will first try to find a font family that supports the required attributes before falling back to manufacturing a bold or italic variant. | ||
| ManufactureBoldFonts | Boolean | No |
| Enables the creation of bold variants on a typeface when the font being used does not have a bold variant of its own (e.g. Geneva). This is disabled by default because bold fonts are expensive (slow) to manufacture. | ||
| ManufactureItalicFonts | Boolean | Yes |
| Enables the creation of italic variants on a typeface when the font being used does not have an italic variant of its own (e.g. Lucida Grande). | ||
| General | ||
| AlsoShowOnReopen | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "(Don't) show a window when OmniWeb's icon is clicked" | ||
| OAContextMenuLayout | Number (integer) | 0 |
| Controls the length of the text in context menus, and therefore the menu's width. [0 = Based on my screen size, 1 = Wider, 2 = Narrower] | ||
| OpenStartPageAtStartup | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Present a window when OmniWeb starts" | ||
| StartPage | String | omniweb-images/StartPage/ |
| Corresponds to "Start page:"; URL for start page, or an empty string to show an empty browser window. | ||
| UseAddressAutocompletion | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Location bar: Automatically complete addresses while typing" | ||
| AutocompleteFromBookmarks | Boolean | Yes |
| Allows you to choose what sources the address autocomplete feature uses | ||
| AutocompleteFromBrowserHistory | Boolean | Yes |
| Allows you to choose what sources the address autocomplete feature uses | ||
| AutocompleteFromPersistHistory | Boolean | Yes |
| Allows you to choose what sources the address autocomplete feature uses | ||
| DisableTypeAheadSelection | Boolean | No |
| Whether we allow typing to select items in a table or popup list, for example | ||
| History | ||
| HistoryUsesDocumentTitles | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether history items are listed by their address or by their page's title | ||
| PersistentAddressesPerSite | Number (integer) | 10 |
| The number of addresses per site which OmniWeb will store in its persistent history file | ||
| PersistentSave | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Discard history when quitting OmniWeb" | ||
| PersistentTimeout | Number (integer) | 30 |
| Corresponds to "Save history entries for [X] days" | ||
| OWHistorySavePageCount | Number (integer) | 2 |
| Corresponds to "Save complete state for up to [x] pages in each window". The number of pages that are saved in a browser window history for 'instant' back button performance. | ||
| OWPersistentHistoryIndexDisabled | Boolean | No |
| Whether or not OmniWeb indexes the pages you visit for later searching. A true value will disable the persistent index, which is enabled by default. | ||
| NoHistoryIndexInUseWarning | Boolean | No |
| If the history index file is locked (presumeably because it's in use by another copy of OmniWeb) this default controls whether or not we prompt the user at application startup. When this is YES, or TRUE, we disable history indexing for the current session without promting the user first. | ||
| Images | ||
| OHBackgroundImagesDisabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Load background images" | ||
| OHBackgroundImagePrintingDisabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Print background images" in the print panel's OmniWeb accessory pane | ||
| OHAutoFetchInlineImages | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Load inline images with page" | ||
| OHDrawPlaceholderImagesWhileLoading | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "show image placeholders while loading" | ||
| OIAnimationLimitationMode | Number (integer) | 0 |
| Corresponds to "Animate images:"; 0 = forever, 1 = once, 2 = thrice, 3 = controlled by ..., 4 = do not animate | ||
| OIAnimationLimitationSeconds | Number (integer) | 20 |
| The number of seconds to let an animation run | ||
| OIAnimationMinimumDelayInterval | Number (real) | 0.1 |
| Minimum time step (in seconds) between frames in animated GIFs. | ||
| OIColorSyncEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Use ColorSync™" | ||
| OIImageProcessorCheckTimeEveryNRows | Number (integer) | 16 |
| How often to check the draw interval time to see whether to flush partially rendered images to the screen (in rows of pixels) | ||
| OIImageProcessorDrawInterval | Number (real) | 2 |
| How often to flush a partially rendered image to the screen (in seconds) | ||
| OIJPEGIgnoreSourceDensity | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether to render JPEG images at their actual dpi setting (as Preview does) or to just display each pixel of source data in a pixel on screen (as most web browsers do) | ||
| Shortcuts | ||
| OW5AddressShortcuts | Dictionary | |
| name of shortcut | Dictionary | |
| format | String | URL string of shortcut, possibly with a %@ |
| method | String | GET or POST |
| formData | String | POST data or query string, possibly with a %@ |
| encoding | String | content body encoding for POST shortcuts; must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded |
| List of shortcuts corresponding to those in the preference pane. If this is empty but there is an OWAddressShortcuts preference left over from OmniWeb 4.5, the old shortcuts are copied (and converted to the new format). | ||
| Source View | ||
| OWSourceViewAutoSpellCheck | Boolean | No |
| Whether or not OmniWeb uses spellchecking in the Source View | ||
| SourceColorizeOnLoad | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Continuously colorize HTML tags" | ||
| SourceFontName | String | Monaco |
| Corresponds to font for source editor | ||
| SourceFontSize | Number (real) | 11 |
| Corresponds to font size for source editor | ||
| SourceFormatOnLoad | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Reformat when source view is opened" | ||
| SourceIndentation | Number (real) | 15 |
| Corresponds to "Indent [X] pixels for each open tag" | ||
| SourceNonSGMLColor | String | 0.066667 0 0.024427 |
| Special color to use for tags whose contents are not interpreted according to SGML's rules, such as scripts and stylesheets | ||
| SourceBackgroundColor | String | 1 1 1 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceTextColor | String | 0 0 0 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourcePreformattedColor | String | 0.066667 0 0.024427 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceEntityColor | String | 0.129412 0.035564 0 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceTagColor | String | 0.29 0 0 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceCommentColor | String | 0 0.29 0.025 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceAttributeColor | String | 0 0 0.389 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceValueColor | String | 0.256 0.003 0.297 |
| Corresponds to color wells in preference pane | ||
| SourceMismatchedBackgroundColor | String | 0.778626 1 0.802284 |
| Corresponds to highlight color for mismatched tags | ||
| SourceUnrecognizedBackgroundColor | String | 1 0.778626 0.778626 |
| Corresponds to highlight color for unrecognized tags | ||
| SourceUseBackgroundForMismatchedTags | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Mismatched tags [underline/highlight]"; 1 = highlight with background color, 0 = underline | ||
| SourceUseBackgroundForUnrecognizedTags | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Urecognized tags [underline/highlight]"; 1 = highlight with background color, 0 = underline | ||
| SourceFormattingAlwaysBreakAfterSet | Array | |
| String | br | |
| String | frameset | |
| String | frame | |
| String | head | |
| String | hr | |
| String | input | |
| String | meta | |
| String | param | |
| String | area | |
| String | table | |
| String | tr | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingLiteralWhitespaceFormatSet | Array | |
| String | pre | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingAlwaysBreakBeforeSet | Array | |
| String | hr | |
| String | li | |
| String | meta | |
| String | frameset | |
| String | frame | |
| String | input | |
| String | option | |
| String | p | |
| String | param | |
| String | tr | |
| String | table | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingNonContainerSet | Array | |
| String | img | |
| String | hr | |
| String | br | |
| String | dt | |
| String | dd | |
| String | input | |
| String | base | |
| String | meta | |
| String | link | |
| String | area | |
| String | param | |
| String | spacer | |
| String | frame | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingNonSGMLFormatSet | Array | |
| String | xmp | |
| String | plaintext | |
| String | script | |
| String | style | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingNoReformatContainerSet | Array | |
| String | b | |
| String | basefont | |
| String | big | |
| String | cite | |
| String | font | |
| String | i | |
| String | em | |
| String | strong | |
| String | kbd | |
| String | nobr | |
| String | small | |
| String | sub | |
| String | sup | |
| String | tt | |
| String | u | |
| String | var | |
| String | wbr | |
| String | a | |
| String | li | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingPossiblyContainerSet | Array | |
| String | p | |
| String | tr | |
| String | td | |
| String | th | |
| String | option | |
| String | li | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| SourceFormattingLiteralWhitespaceFormatSet | Array | |
| String | pre | |
| Controls which HTML tags whitespace is added/removed for when reformatting | ||
| LocalServerDirectory | String | /Library/WebServer/Documents/ |
| Corresponds to "Server's document folder" | ||
| LocalServerIndexFile | String | index.html |
| Filename to assume for URLs that end in "/" when saving to LocalServerDirectory | ||
| LocalServerSuffix | String | |
| Corresponds to "Server address"; URL for a HTTP server to which you can save files via the filesystem | ||
| LocalServerUserDirectory | String | Sites |
| Corresponds to "User folder name". This is the subfolder or subfolder path of a user home folder to use when saving files that come from a user directory of the local web server. | ||
| Speech | ||
| SpeechRecognitionEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Navigate pages using speech recognition" | ||
| Java Applets | ||
| OHAppletsDisabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Don't allow applets" | ||
| OHAppletsStartAutomatically | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "run manually" vs "run automatically" | ||
| JavaScript | ||
| JavaScriptEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to JavaScript enabled/disabled | ||
| JSPopupsDisabled | String | 0 |
| Corresponds to "Block pop-up windows"; 0 = allow popups, 1 = never allow popups, auto = only in response to user action | ||
| JSShowConsole | Boolean | No |
| Whether or not the JavaScript Console window is displayed (found in the Window menu). | ||
| OWJavaScriptCanFocusWindows | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to the "Allow scripts to reorder windows" checkbox. | ||
| OWJavaScriptCanResizeWindows | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to the "Allow scripts to resize windows" checkbox. | ||
| Update | ||
| AutomaticSoftwareUpdateCheckEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Check for updates [Manually/Automatically]". A true value causes OmniWeb to check for updates automatically. | ||
| OSUCheckInterval | Number (integer) | 168 |
| Corresponds to "Automatic checking occurs:"; value stored in hours | ||
| OSUIncludeHardwareDetails | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to "Include System Information". If this is set to a true value, some general details about your system are sent to Omni when the application checks for new versions. | ||
| Workspaces | ||
| CompressWorkspaceFiles | Boolean | Yes |
| If true, workspace files are stored on disk in a compressed form. | ||
| OWActiveWorkspaceName | String | |
| Stores the name of the currently active workspace. | ||
| ShowWorkspaceSwitcher | Boolean | No |
| Whether the workspace switcher panel is visible. | ||
| WorkspacesExpire | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether inactive workspaces are closed after a period of disuse. | ||
| WorkspaceExpireTime | Number (real) | 3600 |
| How long (in seconds) a workspace can remain unused before its resources are reclaimed. | ||
| Compatibility | ||
| OWBrowserIdentity | String | OmniWeb |
| A keyword indicating the identity strings to use for HTTP requests and JavaScript properties. The special token __OWCustomIdent__ indicates that the OWCustomBrowserIdentity default will be used. Other values are keys into the dictionary stored in BrowserIdentity.plist. | ||
| OWCustomBrowserIdentity | Dictionary | |
| The browser identity settings used if OWBrowserIdentity is set to __OWCustomIdent__. | ||
| OWURLNetscapeCompatibleRelativeAddresses | Boolean | Yes |
| Imitates the (arguably incorrect) behavior of some versions of the Netscape browser when dealing with URLs containing ".." components. | ||
| Cookies | ||
| OWAcceptCookies | Boolean | Yes |
| Corresponds to the "Accept Cookies" checkbox. | ||
| OWExpireCookiesAtEndOfSession | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to the "Discard [cookies] when quitting OmniWeb" checkbox. | ||
| OWRejectThirdPartyCookies | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to the "[Accept cookies] only from the current site" checkbox. | ||
| OWShortTopLevelDomains | Array | |
| String | com | |
| String | edu | |
| String | net | |
| String | org | |
| String | gov | |
| String | mil | |
| String | int | |
| String | de | |
| Affects the heuristic which attempts to prevent a site from setting cookies for another site. Children of the top-level domains listed here (e.g., example.com) are assumed to be delegated directly to an organization which controls that domain and all domains below it. TLDs are assumed to have an extra level of delegation only if they are not in this list, are two letters long (a ccTLD), and the second-to-last component is either two letters long (e.g., example.co.uk) or in this list (e.g., example.com.au). (Note that the interpretation of this default has changed slightly since OmniWeb 4.5.) | ||
| HTTPS | ||
| HTTPSCacheEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to item in HTTPS preferences pane. If set to a true value, responses from HTTPS requests may be stored in the disk cache (unless the server requests otherwise). | ||
| HTTPSCipherList | String | ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+SSLv2:@STRENGTH |
| Indicates which cryptographic algorithms to prefer. See the OpenSSL documentation for details. | ||
| HTTPSUseDefaultCipherList | Boolean | Yes |
| If true, the HTTPSCipherList preference is ignored. | ||
| HTTPSEGDEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Indicates whether to use EGD as a randomness source. No longer used, because /dev/*random is used first. | ||
| HTTPSEGDPath | String | /tmp/entropy |
| The pathname to EGD's socket. | ||
| HTTPSEnablePipelinedRequests | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether to allow HTTP1.1-style pipelining on https connections. If true, then the OWHTTPEnablePipelinedRequests preference takes effect. If false, requests are not pipelined on https connections. | ||
| HTTPSSSLv2Enabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether to allow negotiation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 2. SSLv2 is less secure than later versions, but it required by some servers. | ||
| HTTPSSSLv3Enabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether to allow negotiation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3. | ||
| HTTPSTLSv1Enabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Indicates whether to allow negotiation of Transaction-Layer Security (TLS) version 1. This is the most recent, secure, and standards-compliant of the three versions supported by OmniWeb. | ||
| HTTPSUseBugfixes | Boolean | Yes |
| Enables various compatibility modes to support older webservers. For more information, see the OpenSSL documentation. | ||
| HTTPSWarningPanelEnabled | Boolean | No |
| If true, a certificate information panel will be displayed every time an https connection is made. | ||
| HTTPSRequireValidCertificate | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether or not we require a valid certificate when connecting to an https server. | ||
| HTTPSAdditionalTrustedRootCertificates | String | /Library/Application Support/MoreRootCerts.pem |
| This default determines where OmniWeb looks for additional SSL root certificates. We also search for the file 'RootCerts.pem' in the OWLibraryDirectory (see that default for the location that maps to) and in the application bundle for the certificates that we ship with OmniWeb. | ||
| HTTPSUseKeychainCertificates | Boolean | Yes |
| Causes OmniWeb to look for X.509 certificates in the system's X509Anchors keychain and in the user's default keychain list. | ||
| Privacy & Annoyance | ||
| OHFilterSuspectedAdBanners | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Block images and other inline content matching known ad sizes" | ||
| OHSkipImagesFromOtherSites | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Block images and other inline content from third-party sites" | ||
| OWAddressFilteringEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Block images and other inline content from blocked URLs" | ||
| OWAddressesToFilter | Array | |
| String | /ads\..*\.net/ | |
| String | /ads\..*\.com/ | |
| String | /.*\.doubleclick\.net/ | |
| Corresponds to list of filter regex patterns used by the Ad Blocking preferences | ||
| OWAddressesToAllow | Array | |
| Corresponds to list of filter regex patterns used by the Ad Blocking preferences | ||
| OWPopUpTrapEnabled | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to the "Show blocked pop-up windows in the status bar" checkbox. | ||
| Plug-Ins | ||
| NetscapePluginInstanceDebug | Boolean | No |
| Controls whether or not debugging is on for Netscape-style plugins (enabling copious log information, at least in internal builds) | ||
| NetscapePluginRegistrationDebug | Boolean | No |
| Whether to log information about each Netscape plug-in we find | ||
| DisabledBundles | Array | |
| An array of paths to plug-ins or loadable bundles that should not be loaded. Each item can be either the complete path to the item, just the filename, or the filename without the extension. Plug-Ins preferences uses this defualt to track the plug-ins and bundles that you have disabled through the preferences interface. | ||
| Interface | ||
| OAWindowCascadeDisabled | Boolean | No |
| Whether or not the cascading of windows is disabled | ||
| ShowConsole | Boolean | No |
| Whether the Error Log window is shown when OmniWeb launches | ||
| ShowDownloads | Boolean | No |
| Whether the Recent Downloads window is shown when OmniWeb launches | ||
| ShowProcesses | Boolean | No |
| Whether the Network Activity window is shown when OmniWeb launches | ||
| ShowInactiveProcesses | Boolean | No |
| Whether the Network Activity window shows processes that have finished running | ||
| OAWindowAnimationDuration | Number (real) | 0.6 |
| The duration of the animation that occurs when you open a zoomed form editor window (in seconds) | ||
| SharedMenusEnabled | Boolean | Yes |
| Controls whether or not to enable the Shared Menus Protocol support in OmniWeb | ||
| DisplayLinkUsingMouseTip | Boolean | No |
| Enables an experimental mode which displays the click address as a tooltip when hovering over a link. | ||
| UseIBeamCursor | Boolean | No |
| Controls whether we use the standard arrow cursor (if set to false) or an I-beam cursor (if set to true) when hovering over selectable text on web pages. (The I-beam cursor is very hard to see on pages with dark backgrounds.) | ||
| NSWindow Frame MainBrowser | String | 10 0 748 1200 |
| Explicit setting for initial browser window size and position (used to determine default size and re-written by "Save Window Size") | ||
| BrowserAddressAlwaysVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether the (separate) location bar is shown on browser windows. Corresponds to the Toolbars/Location Bar menu item. | ||
| BrowserFavoritesVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether the favorites bar is shown on browser windows. Corresponds to the Toolbars/Favorites Bar menu item. | ||
| BrowserNavigationBarVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether the main navigation toolbar is shown on browser windows. Corresponds to the Toolbars/Navigation Bar menu item. | ||
| BrowserToolbarsVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether the Address/Favorites/Navigation group of toolbars is hidden/shown. Corresponds to the "Hide/Show Toolbars" menu item and the toolbar lozenge in the window title bar. | ||
| StatusBarVisible | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether the dynamic status bar / toolbar is shown. Corresponds to the "Status Bar" item in the View menu. | ||
| OWStatusBarItems | Array | |
| String | OWAddBookmarkStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWAddSearchStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWBlockedPopupStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWImagesStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWSecureStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWCookieStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWAutoFillStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWRSSStatusItemIdentifier | |
| String | OWSitePreferencesStatusItemIdentifier | |
| A list of the items which can appear in a window's status bar, and their order of appearance. | ||
| Favorite Preferences | Array | |
| String | Bookmarks | |
| String | Tabs & Windows | |
| String | Appearance | |
| String | Ad Blocking | |
| A list of preference panes which are displayed on the shelf at the top of the Preferences window. | ||
| OWDoNotWarnAboutReadOnlyConfiguration | Boolean | No |
| Turns off the prompt that notifies the user when we have encountered a read-only configuration directory and assumes the user would click 'Continue' rather than 'Quit' in the dialog. (Good for labs/kiosks.) | ||
| AddressAutocompleteMinimumWidth | Number | 0 |
| Overrides the automatic width of the address autocompletion dropdown list and fixes the width to the specified number of pixels. | ||
| Printing | ||
| OHPrintPageURL | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether to include the page's URL in the page footer when printing. Corresponds to "Web page URL" in the OmniWeb section of the print panel. | ||
| OHPrintPageNumber | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether to include page numbers in the page footer when printing. Corresponds to "Page number" in the OmniWeb section of the print panel. | ||
| OHPrintPageTitle | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether to print a heading with the web page's title on each page. Corresponds to "Web page title" in the OmniWeb section of the print panel. | ||
| OHPrintDate | Boolean | Yes |
| Whether to include a timestamp in the page footer when printing. Corresponds to "Date and time" in the OmniWeb section of the print panel. | ||
| Protocols & Networking | ||
| OWFTPAnonymousPassword | String | OmniWeb@ |
Password to send to FTP servers when logging in as anonymous. If this default is not set, the password sent will be OmniWeb@hostname. | ||
| OWHTTPDebug | Boolean | No |
| Corresponds to "Show HTTP requests" box in Error Log window | ||
| OWHTTPEnablePipelinedRequests | Boolean | Yes |
| Enables HTTP/1.1 pipelining with servers that claim to support it | ||
| OWHTTPMaximumNumberOfRequestsToPipeline | Number (integer) | 1 |
| Max number of outstanding requests to allow on an HTTP connection when pipelining is enabled | ||
| OWHTTPFakeAcceptHeader | Boolean | Yes |
| When true, we send "Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, image/tiff, multipart/x-mixed-replace, */*" always, rather than dynamically determining the list of context types appropriate in a particular context (e.g., leaving off text/html and text/plain for inline images). The full list of content-types acceptable to OmniWeb is long enough that some servers (e.g. in embedded devices) cannot handle it. | ||
| OWHTTPSessionAcceptLanguageOverride | String | |
| If this is set, it controls the Accept-Language: header sent to HTTP servers. An empty string prevents the Accept-Language: header from being sent at all. If the default is not set at all, then the header's value is based on the user's preferred language (possibly overridden by OWHTTPSessionLanguages). Normally this default is not set. | ||
| OWHTTPSessionSendAcceptLanguageHeader | Boolean | No |
| If set to a false value, this prevents the Accept-Language header from being sent. It corresponds to the "Request web pages in my preferred language(s)" checkbox. | ||
| OWHTTPSessionLanguages | Array | |
| If set, this is used as a list of language preferences instead of the value chosen in System Preferences, but only for the purposes of HTTP. It does not affect the language in which the rest of OmniWeb's interface is displayed. | ||
| OWHTTPSessionAcceptLanguageIncludeFallback | Boolean | No |
| Includes the value "*" at the end of the Accept-Language header (if sent), allowing the server to provide content in any available language if the requested languages are not available. Including the fallback is known to sometimes cause problems with some web servers such as FileMaker (consistently), Netscape Enterprise, and IIS (depending on configuration). Without this fallback, a standards-conformant server may return an error code of 406 if it cannot provide a translation in the user's preferrred language. | ||
| OWHTTPMaximumSessionsPerServer | Number (integer) | 4 |
| Max number of simultaneous connections OmniWeb will open with a given HTTP server | ||
| OWHTTPSessionTimeout | Number (real) | 120 |
| Time (in seconds) to retain an inactive HTTP session before closing it. (Only affects connections to servers supporting keepalive / persistent connections.) | ||
| OWHTTPAcceptCharsetHeader | String | iso-8859-1, utf-8, iso-10646-ucs-2, macintosh, windows-1252, * |
| The string sent to servers identifying the character sets that we accept. If this is unset or set to an empty string, OmniWeb will not send an Accept-Charset header in the request. This setting is a subset of OmniWeb's actual capabilities, which include all of the character sets supported by Core Foundation. | ||
| OWHTTPTrustServerContentType | Boolean | No |
| Controls whether we trust a web server when it tells us the content-type of a response. If this is false, we ignore the Content-Type header if it is set to any of the following values: text/plain, text/xml, application/octet-stream, or application/xml. | ||
| ONHostResolverType | String | gethostbyname |
Controls the API used to resolve hostnames to IP addresses. The following values are supported:
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| Tabs | ||
| TabDrawerOnRight | Boolean | No |
| Controls which side of the browser window the Tabs drawer opens on. (false=left, true=right) | ||
| TabDrawerWidth | Number (real) | 135</ |